MinnesotaIceman

Through the glories of Black Friday I finally aquired BioShock. ($5. It would be a SIN not to get it)

And it is absolutely one of the best video games I have ever played in my life.

Good God in Heaven, it's amazing.

Only $5? Where did you buy it? Was it new or used?

Zhu Zhu Pets

I'm not familiar with those. Are they a current fad?

Currently playing New Super Mario Bros., which I hadn't played in about three years. It's great fun. So, for that matter, is New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which I hope to get eventually. I'll probably by it during a month when no new Minimates are being released.

Great stuff, Luke, these'll sell like hot cakes!

Don't assume it was all scalpers. A lot of them were probably parents looking for those darn robo-hamsters.

Robo-hamsters?

The title says it all. For the purposes of this thread, you are limited to just one superpower. If I could have any one, I'd probably choose photographic reflexes, like Taskmaster or Echo.

Also, if you did have the superpower of your choice, would you be a hero, a villain, or neither?

Blade is my favrite,he was my first minimate given to me by my tattoo artist,Blade got the ball rollin for me and still remains my favrite but deadpool is moving in close i must say

Which Deadpool do you have? I have both of the X-Men Origins: Wolverine versions.

(I'm not sure if this has been done already or not; if it has, feel free to delete this.)

Of all the Minimates that you own, which one is your very favorite, and why?

Mine is Taskmaster (who I got earlier this week), because of the armload of accessories he comes with.

The Toys 'R 'Us system isn't perfect - we all know this. And *hopefully* as of TRU Wave 6, we'll stop seeing the 1-per-case variants (Chuck mentioned something along those lines, didn't he?).

They are out there - and as of Wave 6 there will be even more of them out there.

I would like to say a huge thanx to the board members in this thread (One in particular ) who have been kind enough to find almost every TRU exclusive for me.

I think it's most awesome that despite the rarity & difficulty in finding these, the MMMV community is mucking together to give everyone a better chance to get these guys

Cheers Boys & Girls.

The kindness and selflessness shown by this community is indeed touching. I've visited lots of online forums, and I've never seen anything quite like it. We have some really good-hearted people here.

On a semi-related note, if anybody ever finds a Molecule Man/Spider-Woman set and wants to work out a deal of some sort, feel free to PM me.

I hereby nominate this as the thread's official logo:

... because there are some things that can only be remedied by crappy Photoshop

Win.

My Toys Rn't Us only has two pegs for Marvel Minimates, and only carries a handful of them, all of which are from the X-Men Origins: Wolverine wave. And they only carry a few of the ones from that wave, I might add.

Currently reading Loosing the Bonds by Robert Kinloch Massie.

Sure. I get that. I find it therapeutic myself. The complaining just seems a bit excessive lately, that's all. Still, not my thread so I shall bow out. Have fun.

Yeah, you have a point. But still, why should I have to pay between $15 and $20 (what the Molecule Man + Spider-Woman set costs on ToyWiz.com, for example) for a set, when any other set I can get for about a third of that amount at, say, Luke's store?

And somehow griping about it online will make minimates magically appear at your TRU? Really?

No, but sometimes it's nice to be able to vent a little.

At the very least, DST should let us order these exclusives from their website, since Toys Rn't Us carries them, and doesn't even have most of them on their website!

Seriously, they should stop making exclusives for those %@*&%@&&@.

All I know is this....... My TRU STILL have Wolverine Movie sets, one or two of the other earlier Marvel "exclusive" sets, BSG series 1 and 2 and Terminator mates.

Haven't seen ANY of the newest Marvel series or Ghostbusters series 2.

I asked an employee one day after being fed up with seeing the same stuff there if they had ANY newer Marvel or GB series 2 sets...........all I got was, "what is out is all we have." without even asking someone or checking for themselves.

This TRU is 5 minutes from my apartment......I refuse to drive 45 minutes to an hours and a half just to find newer stuff or with the possibility of them having the same crap.

Oy........

Oh, and also the fact that this TRU ALWAYS look like crap because they apparently Never clean up during the day...........

QFT

Welcome to the Multiverse! Refreshments are to your left, restrooms are to your right.

Lobsterman, thank you, thank you. This thread could not have come at a better time!

To Toys R Us, I say: "$^*$@&^$!*%$!^%E@^%&*^)*(P_!(@%&^@$&^$!&^$!&!*^%!$^$&(!" or something to that effect. :tongue:

I sort them by team.

Secret Wars is a TRU exclusive and reportedly arrives soon (maybe Black Friday), but I'm not holding my breath.

Boo! Hiss!

I hate TRU.

Yeah, if Hasbro put a little more effort into making these quality figures--better paint apps and higher quality plastic--I would be all over them. Based on the prototypes and sculpts, I was really excited about the Hulk/Cyclops 2-pack. And then, I saw them in the store. Pathetic. They look like the cheap knock-off toys you see at the dollar store. Screw that.

I'll buy the one with Hawkeye when it comes out, but only because Hawkeye's awesomeness can transcend a $h!tty, ridiculously overpriced toy.

Agreed, Hasbro is extremely incompetent and/or sloppy when it comes to the paint quality. Do they even check these things before they're released? They are also overpriced.

Even so, I do enjoy the MU figures a lot, notwithstanding these issues.

How about Midnight Cowboy? No there would be some interesting mates!

Haven't seen that one.

Thanks, guys. Luke, will your store be carrying that set?

That Monica Rambeau 'fro from the Secret Wars set would be a good start on a Magus...

When will that set be released?

But I still have a bunch of Game Boy games, and the DSI doesn't have a port for the cartridges.

So in MY opinion, I would go DS Lite

I concur.